Lions are known as "knights of the blind", focusing on programs and services for the blind and visually impaired – and aim to eliminate preventable and reversible blindness. 

Lions Clubs are known for helping others with vision with eyeglasses and prevention of blindness, but there is so much more to being a Lion.

In Vergas, some of the services include: Blood drives for 35 years, youth Halloween party, Craft Fair, Vergas Event Center cash bar at events, youth scholarships, ditch cleaning, aluminum can recycling, Looney Daze biscuits/gravy breakfast, eyeglass & hearing aid collection, working in the community, Miss Vergas & Princess Altona Pageant & Scholarships, Kamp KACE (Kids Against Cancer Everywhere), Can Do Canines, LCIF (Lions Clubs International Foundation), Leader Dogs, LEHP (Lions Eye Health Program), MD5M Hearing Foundation, MN Diabetes Foundation - Golf Tournament Fundraiser, MN Lions Vision Foundation, Project New Hope, Youth Exchange, and Youth Outreach. More services included building a shelter at Trowbridge Zoo in Vergas, fish fry and tournament, Fall Harvest Ball, Maple Syrup Fest, Journey for Sight Walks, handicap ramps, sponsorship to Boy Scouts, Little League and Babe Ruth programs, and more.

The Vergas Lions chartered on Feb. 19, 1968 with Fergus Falls as their sponsor club. The charter members were: First President Gordon Dahlgren, 2nd Vice President Vern Stardig, 3rd Vice President Paul Anderson, Secretary Lyle Priske, Treasurer Lee Davis, Tail Twister Lee Frederich, Lion Tamer Ralph Woodall, Directors Rodney Hanson, Bernard Furey, Claudie Bruhn and Leroy Pokornowski; other charter members were Marvin Monson, William Richter, Marlo Sonnenberg, Walter Berend, Lloyd Cromwell, Armin Dey, Karl Fankhanel, Stanley Glawe, Gilman Gunstinson, Roger Hanson, Leonard Hillstrom, Ambrose Hinze, Donald Peterson, E.A. Peterson, Lavern Sonnenberg, Loren Sonnenberg, and Donald Zitzow.

Lions are the world's largest service club organization with 46,000 clubs and 1.6+ million members. Members do whatever is needed to help their local communities and worldwide.

The Vergas Lions love working with and meeting new people in the community they serve. Meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Vergas Event Center. Get involved and serve others. To join, or for more information call Sandy Antonsen, 342-3056, e-mail, dndsantonsen@arvig.net